. >> reporter: they get paid nothing to create what are called p.e.t.s, short for personal energy transportation, a hand-power iing tricycle designed for the traveling world. >> most would be put away in a closet or bed because it was deemed if you were disabled that you were cursed. it really touched my heart and i thought, you know, there's something we should do about that one. >> reporter: his group is part of an international organization that has shipped the p.e.t.s to more than 85 skuntries. the component parts are packaged here and assembled and transferred to the other side of town. you guys are like the elves. >> a little bit. we've got elves all over the place. this machine allows them to go get water at the river, go to school if it's a child, you know. some use it to make a little bit of income. you know, $3 a day to someone in haiti is huge. >> reporter: this 10-year-old lives in haiti and she had been getting around on a broken wheelchair until she received her new p.e.t. and while it's 2,000 miles from haiti to leighton, iowa, he says the tangible amount of his work shortened the